{"id":8549,"date":"2020-10-02T04:19:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T04:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2025-12-11T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T01:34:11","slug":"arcanum-unbounded-the-cosmere-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/arcanum-unbounded-the-cosmere-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

This collection of short fiction<\/a> spans Brandon Sanderson’s various existing Cosmere<\/a> series along with two currently stand-alone ones.<\/p>\n

The first two take place on the world of Elantris<\/a>, with The Emperor’s Soul<\/a> effectively being stand-alone with no need to have read anything else (though having read the first two Stormlight Archive books<\/a> will help conceptually). The Hope of Elantris<\/em> meanwhile is heavily dependent on having recently read Elantris<\/em> proper, but honestly isn’t very good at all and would probably be best skipped.<\/p>\n

The next three stories focus on the Mistborn<\/a> world. The Eleventh Metal<\/em> is a prequel that’s basically a chapter-length interlude which would’ve worked better placed as a flashback in the first book instead of having been released separately. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania<\/em> on the other hand jumps ahead to the Alloy of Law<\/em> half of the series setting-wise and essentially ends up its own separate thing. This section is then wrapped up with Mistborn: Secret History<\/a> which is quite long and reveals what was going on behind the scenes during the 2nd and 3rd Mistborn<\/em> novels. You can read it without being familiar with the series proper (I had forgotten nearly everything about it by this time), but it will likely have more impact if read shortly after finishing those.<\/p>\n

The remaining stories are each from a different world:<\/p>\n